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Danielle Laborde

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Danielle Laborde's Bio:

        Danielle Laborde is President and Senior Epidemiologist at HERMES, LLC. She is a public health researcher who founded the research services company in 2002. Dr. Laborde's expertise is infectious disease epidemiology. She has been a federally funded investigator for over 20 years. Her research interests include prevention interventions against microbial disease including diarrheal diseases, sexually transmitted infections, HIV infection, and immunization and sustainable strategies to promote health equity and resilience. Dr. Laborde is highly knowledgeable of applied epidemiologic and survey methodology. Her skills include protocol development, data collection, coordination of study operations, analysis of complex data, publishing in peer-reviewed journals and presenting at national meetings. She has developed methods to monitor and evaluate hygienic interventions, assess hygienic practice guidelines and environmental control recommendations. Dr. Laborde has performed feasibility studies, conducted site visits and pilot testing of study protocols, directed focus groups, developed training materials for program managers, clinical providers, researchers, and community leaders. She has developed process and outcome measures for evaluating guidelines, and taught higher level graduate courses and research methods workshops.       As president of HERMES, LLC, Dr. Laborde provides leadership in collaborative research initiatives and ensures that all work products are based on scientific evidence.Dr. Laborde also serves on NIH SBIR Grant study sections and on the editorial board of several journals and routinely works closely with clinical, social science, and environmental health professionals.  

Danielle Laborde's Experience:

  • Visiting Associate Professor at University of North Carolina at Wilmington

    September 2008 - May 2009

    School of Nursing Developed and conducted workshops to promote and support scholarly activities among faculty and graduate students in developing methods for conducting their research projects.

  • Senior Epidemiologist and co-owner at SciMetrika, LLC

    2001 - December 2002 | Durham, NC

    Founded a small scientific research consulting firm, involved in the day to day business development and company management. Obtained a Small Innovative Research Contract from the National Institute of Mental Health

  • Assistant Professor at Department of Pediatrics, Children's Hospital of The King's Daughters, Eastern Virginia Medical Scho

    1996 - 1998 | Norfolk Virginia

    Dr. Laborde served as epidemiologist at the pediatric research center, responsible for clinical study design, management, and research protocol development for the Collaborative Human Milk and Infant Nutrition study in Mexico study involving clinical trial of rotavirus vaccine, mother-infant cohort, and nested case control studies. She was Principal Investigator on the use of surrogate DNA markers in the evaluation of strategies aimed at reducing infectious disease transmission in child care centers as well as Co-Investigator on studies to track infectious disease transmission routes in the neonatal intensive care unit and the detection and occurrence of calicivirus in drinking water and helped to establish the MPH program at Old Dominion University by serving on the curriculum committee and launching the teaching program.

  • Assistant Professor at Tulane School of Public Health, Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology

    1994 - 1996

    Taught graduate courses in epidemiologic research methods, survey methods, bacterial disease and tropical infectious disease epidemiology and mentored graduate students. Served as PI on a study comparing immunization coverage in public and private hospital pediatric clinics in New Orleans and Co-PI on a study of enteroadherent, enterotoxigenic, and enterohemorrhagic E. coli infections in day care center attendees in New Orleans. She conducted a feasibility study of in-house water chlorination to improved water quality intervention to decrease the incidence of gastrointestinal Illness and reduce coastal water eutrophication in Jamaica.

  • President and Senior Epidemiologist at HERMES LLC

    November 2002

    Dr. Laborde founded HERMES to provide professional research services and conduct innovative studies to advance public and international health. She has been successful in developing research and obtaining grants and contracts to fulfill this mission and building the company's professional service profile. She also provides ongoing epidemiology research and training services for international and government agency subcontracts, and writes technical reports and journal articles. Dr Laborde served as Principal Investigator (PI) on NIMH-funded SBIR Phase I and Phase II projects to develop modules for training mental health researchers and black community-based organization leaders in partnership skills. This involved conducting an in-depth needs assessment, engaging community representatives, and the cultural tailoring of training materials for black community leaders and researchers as well as summative process and outcome evaluation. As Director of a 6-year cooperative agreement with the Office of Women's Health, she implemented and evaluated peer-led HIV/STI prevention programs for women attending HBCUs. This entailed community coalition/capacity building, technical assistance, evaluation, project management, and training. Laborde serves as PI on a NIMH-funded study to develop and field test post-disaster mental health training for black community leaders and clinical providers in the coastal Carolinas. This project is based on a train the trainer model and includes building local capacity in community emergency response planning.

Danielle Laborde's Education:

  • UNC_Chapel Hill

    1987 – 1991
    PhD and MPH
    Concentration: Epidemiology/ Parasitology and Laboratory Practice
    Activities: Doctoral Thesis: Hygienic Intervention to Reduce the Incidence of Diarrheal Illness in Day Care Centers Masters Thesis: Campylobacter Jejuni in the Human Intestinal Tract (First isolate at UNC Hospital)

  • Quinnipiac College

    1974 – 1977
    Bachelor of Science
    Concentration: Microbiology
    Activities: Microbial Flora of the Gastrointestinal Tract

Danielle Laborde's Interests & Activities:

Sea Turtle Rescue, Ocean Science and Environmental Justice, French Film, Jazz, International Politics, Flowers, Fashion, Seashells, Dance.




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